Contacts and Speakers

 

Contacts for Particle Physics Research Groups in the UK

 

Below is a list of contacts for PP research groups who can help by providing an opportunity to schools to visit university research scientists and departments working on projects connected to the LHC, and help enrich an activity connected with a planned school visit to CERN or upon return.

Point of Contact Listing for PP Research Groups
University Contact  Email  Web Link 
Birmingham John Wilson jaw@hep.ph.bham.ac.uk http://www.ep.ph.bham.ac.uk/
 Bristol  Helen Heath Helen.Heath@bristol.ac.uk http://www.phy.bris.ac.uk/groups/particle/index.html
 Brunel  Dawn Leslie Dawn.Leslie@brunel.ac.uk http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sed
 Cambridge  Steve Wotton wotton@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/
 Durham  Pete Edwards p.j.edwards@durham.ac.uk http://www.cpt.dur.ac.uk/
 Liverpool  Phil Allport allport@liv.ac.uk http://www.liv.ac.uk/physics/hep/index.html
 Nottingham  Anne Green anne.green@nottingham.ac.uk   http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Physics/Outreach/Outreach.aspx
 Oxford  Brian Foster b.foster1@physics.ox.ac.uk http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/
 QMUL  Laura Thomas l.f.thomas@qmul.ac.uk http://www.ph.qmul.ac.uk/
 RHUL  Tracey Berry tracey.berry@rhul.ac.uk

http://www.rhul.ac.uk/physics/research/particlephysics

 Sheffield  Susan Cartwright s.cartwright@sheffield.ac.uk http://www.shef.ac.uk/physics/
 Swansea  Graham Shore G.M.Shore@swansea.ac.uk   http://www.swan.ac.uk/physics/
Sussex  Darren Baskill d.baskill@sussex.ac.uk http://www.sussex.ac.uk/epp/
UCL  Mario Campanelli mario.campanelli@hep.ucl.ac.uk   http://www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/

All the Particle Physicists on the list below are happy to give talks to schools or other groups.  If you would like to invite them to give a talk, please contact them directly.

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London, South and South East
Midlands and East Anglia
South West England
Wales
Yorkshire
North East England
North West England
Scotland
Northern Ireland

Scotland
Name                               Institute                                     Telephone                Other Details / Title of Talk
Richard Kenway  Edinburgh

0131 6505245

Computer Simulation of Elementary
Particles
Rebecca Crawford  STEMPOINT Scotland 0141 3306396  Can arrange talks in Scotland           
Victoria Martin  Edinburgh 0131 6517042  
Alan Walker  Edinburgh 0131 650 5237

Particle Physics for Scottish Schools (PP4SS) Exhibition
Chris Parkes Glasgow & CERN  0141 330 5885
+41 22 76 72309 

It's the end of the world as we know it: The start of the LHC
Angels and Demons: the story of antimatter
Northern Ireland
Name                              Institute         Telephone Other Details/Title of Talk                                                              
James Stirling Cambridge 
(but does talks in Northern
Ireland)		 01223 337083 Particle Physics and the LHC
       
       
North West England
Name                          Institute                                Telephone                      Other Details / Title of Talk                                 
Chris Bowdery Lancaster 01524 61678 The Higgs Boson and the Origin of Mass
Tim Greenshaw Liverpool 0151 7943383                                                                       
Hywel Owen Manchester - main contact 01925 603797

From splitting the atom to cures for cancer: a tour through the world of particle accelerators
Roger Barlow Manchester 0161 275 4178 High Energy Physics Today
Fred Loebinger Manchester 0161 275 4180 Quarks and Gluons - The Story of Elemental Particle Physics
North East England
Name                          Institute                                Telephone                       Other Details / Title of Talk                                               

Mark Rodgers

 Durham 0191 334 3653 General Particle Physics Talks - suitable for 6th formers
Pete Edwards  Durham 0191 334 3782 Talks suitable for key stage 3,4 and sixth form students
Topics include:
      The Big Bang Machine
      Mined Over Dark Matter
      What Are We Made Of?
      The Dark Side Of The Universe
Nigel Glover Durham 0191 334 3602 The hunt for the Higgs - suitable for 6th formers
Frank Krauss Durham 0191 334 3751 General Particle Physics Talks - suitable for age 14 upwards 
Peter Richardson Durham  0191 334 3764 General Particle Physics Talks - suitable for 6th formers
Yorkshire
Name                          Institute                                Telephone                        Other Details / Title of Talk                                              
Susan Cartwright Sheffield 0114 222 4572 A talk through the Universe (Key Stage 1 and 2)
      Dark Matter the Stuff of the Universe     
      Diving for Neutrinos: Neutrinos and the
origin of cosmic rays
      The Ideas of Particle Physics
      Quantum Physics
Neil Spooner Sheffield 0114 222 4422                                                                         
Lee Thompson Sheffield 0114 222 4577 Particle Astrophysics
Neutrino Astronomy
Cosmic Rays
Dark matter and ANTARES: Diving for WIMPs!
Chris Booth Sheffield  0114 222 3541   
Ed Daw  Sheffield  0114 222 4353   
Stathes Paganes  Sheffield  0114 222 4352   
Davide Costanzo Sheffield  0114 222 4549   
Sean Pailing Sheffield  0114 222 4270   
Dan Tovey Sheffield  0114 222 3546   
Vitaly Kudryavtsev Sheffield  0114 222 4531   
Midlands and East Anglia
Name                          Institute                                Telephone                        Other Details / Title of Talk                                              
Richard Bailey Cambridge 01223 337434                                                                                    
Andy Parker Cambridge 01223 337324  
James Stirling  Cambridge  01223 337083  Particle Physics and the LHC 
Ed Copeland Nottingham  0115 9515 164

From Quarks to Galaxies
The Large Hadron Collider - why should we care? 
Anne Green Nottingham  0115 8467 902  Searching for Dark Matter
Is Cosmology a science?
Antonio Padilla Nottingham  0115 8467 903  Parallel Worlds
Ian Kenyon Birmingham 0121 414 4627  
Pete Watkins Birmingham 0121 414 4625  
Cristina Lazzeroni Birmingham 0121 414 4614   
Paul Newman Birmingham  0121 414 4617   
Gary Barker Warwick 02476 523399  
Steve Boyd Warwick 02476 573876  
Tim Gershon Warwick 02476 523778  
Paul Harrison Warwick 02476 572942  
Yorck Ramachers Warwick 02476 573878  
Wales
Name                          Institute                  Telephone                      Other Details / Title of Talk                                             
Chris Alton University of Wales, Swansea 01792 295738                                             
Graham Shore University of Wales, Swansea  01792 295737  The LHC @ CERN - what do we hope to find and when? 
Tegid Wyn Jones University College London 020 76797150 Welsh language a speciality
South West England
  Name                        Institute                                  Telephone                      Other Details / Title of Talk
Helen Heath Bristol 0117 9288 714 Small is beautiful: A look at size from us to the proton
      Hunting in the Higgs:  The large Hadron Collider at CERN
and how it aims to discover the origin of mass
Vincent Smith Bristol 0117 9288 740 Quarks and Leptons:
The Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physics
      Relativity and the Twin Paradox
      Wave Particle Duality:
Is the electron there when you are not looking?
      The Higgs Boson and other things we don't know yet
      Matter and Anti-matter
      What Time is it on Mars
(How to measure time on earth and other planets)
Nick Brook  Bristol 0117 954 6877  
Joel Goldstein  Bristol 0117 928 8772  
Greg Heath  Bristol 0117 9255 624  
Dave Newbold  Bristol 0117 9288 770  
Jonas Rademacker  Bristol 0117 3317 904  
Martin Lavelle  Plymouth 01752 232729 What's the Matter with Anti-matter?
      From the Light Bulb to Quantum Computing
- 100 years of Quantum Mechanics
       50 years of strangeness
       Chocolate, Mirrors and the Speed Of Light
London, South and South East
Name                          Institute                            Telephone               Other Details / Title of TalK
David Miller University College  London 020 7679 7152 The Sex-Life of the Proton
      Cosmic Etiquette
      Z, LEP and the Universe
Jon Butterworth University College London 07977 444137 Atlas and the LHC 
Nikos Konstanidis University College London 07789 976563 Higgs Bosun 
Mark Lancaster University College London 07855 472095 The Unknowns of Particle Physics
Ryan Nichol  University College London  07855 299171  Particle Physics in Antarctica
Cosmic Ray and Neutrinos 
Ken Peach Oxford University and Royal Holloway, University of London 01865 273312 Much Ado About Nothing
- Particle Physics and the Vacuum
Nigel Smith The STFC
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory 		01235 445782 Dark Matter and the Search
for WIMPs in the UK
 Chris Damerell The STFC
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory 		  From Penguins to WIMPS:
Travels of a Particle AstroPhysicist
Bob Brown The STFC
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory 		01235 446216  
Stephen Haywood The STFC
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory 		01235 446761 What Makes the World Tick
William Murray The STFC
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory 		01235 446256 The Search for the Higgs Boson
    What You Need to Know About
Quantum Mechanics
       Particle Physics Today
Mike Green Royal Holloway University of London 01784 443454  What is the Matter? Where is the Antimatter? 
Hugh Shanahan Royal Holloway University of London 01784 443433
Peter Kalmus Queen Mary, University of London 020 78825042 

Particles and the universe

Antimatter

The forces of nature

Mirror images, antimatter and  time reversal
Paul Kyberd Brunel University 01895 266801 Working at CERN
    Darkness Visible
Neutrinos and Conservation Laws
      CP Violation and the Origin of Matter
Steve Lloyd

Queen Mary, University of London

020 78825057  The Data Deluge and the Grid
Sanjaye Ramgoolam Queen Mary, University of London 020 78825047

String Theory and Hidden Dimensions of Spacetime

Duality between Gravity and Light in String Theory
Elliot Leader Imperial College London 020 7594 7808  
Ken Long Imperial College London 020 7594 7812  
Igor Liubarsky Imperial College London 020 75947878  
Todd Huffman Oxford University 01865273333 If Particle Physicists are not really
interested in particles,
just what ARE they interested in?
Gerald Myatt Oxford University 01865 273381 Dark Matter in the Universe
Hans Kraus Oxford University 01865 273361  
Tony Weidberg Oxford University 01865 273370 Everything You Ever Wanted
To Know About Quarks
- But Were Afraid to Ask
Alan Barr Oxford University 01865 273636  Atom smashing - the world's biggest experiment
Brian Foster Oxford University 01865 273323 Superstrings
Einstein's Universe
Nick Evans Southampton 023 80592093  
Jonathon Flynn Southampton 023 80592093  
Steve King Southampton 023 80592093  
Stefano Moretti Southampton 023 80592093  
Tim Morris Southampton 023 80592093  
Chris Sachradja Southampton 023 80592093  
Antonella De Santo University of Sussex 01273 678115 The Big Bang Experiment 
Fabrizio Salvatore University of Sussex 01273 678749   
Simon Peeters University of Sussex  01273 678128

What is particle physics and why should we do it?

Captain Neutrino  
Darren Baskill  University of Sussex  01273 872815